It was created by Russian-Canadian programmer Vitalik Buterin in 2013 and launched in 2015. Ethereum has become a major player in the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, with its native cryptocurrency, ether, being the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization after Bitcoin.02-Sept-2023
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Ether (ETH) is Ethereum's cryptocurrency. It is the fuel that runs the network. It is used to pay for the computational resources 
and the transaction fees for any transaction executed on the Ethereum network. Like Bitcoins, ether is a peer-to-peer currency.
